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| - The Camby has a very targeted market: hip, 30-ish people. I am neither. However, I wanted to see this new addition to the Marriott line, given I'm a permanent Platinum and travel 100% of my work life.
It's only been open a month and it's still got some work to go. The pool is unfinished ("a couple more weeks") and they have no business center (huh) - there are double doors on the ground floor whose windows are engraved "Business Center" but the card key readers are swipers (the Canby uses the wave type), so you really can't get in.
Seems like THAT business center is a remnant from the hotel's Ritz Carlton days - the guy at the front desk said "we don't have one yet - it will be over there" and pointed to a bare corner. I wonder if they've had/are having cash flow issues? The elevators, too, are looking like they've had better days.
The good: it's new, so the carpets, the bedding, etc are fresh. Especially, they laid out some bucks for the pillows (a real point in their favor IMO) and the bed was comfortable. There's a good sofa (but it sure doesn't look like a sleeper.)
They have generous amounts of USB ports, so I was able to charge both the phone and the iPad by my bed.
The folks at the front desk were really friendly and accommodating, although the room location they gave me really wasn't great.
The bad: I was in room 623, which is right off the elevators... I went to sleep listening to ding... ding... ding... and people's conversations and they waddled to their rooms.
The chair at the desk is not made for the middle-aged female backside. It's made for the skinny hipster. The chair also doesn't height-adjust. That's a bummer, as I'm a little low for comfort while typing. Butt-squeeze and sore arms, negative points.
The TV, while well sized for the room, doesn't flippin' MOVE. It's affixed to the wall, but not on a swivel, so if you're sitting on the sofa, your view of the TV is limited at best. Likewise if you're working at the desk.
This is environmentally unfriendly, I know, but I LIKE the little sample size shampoos etc - more accurately, my mom does, and the local homeless shelter gratefully accepts any other leftovers. Here, the tubs of shampoo, body wash and conditioner are firmly affixed to the shower wall.
Parking. Seriously, $33 for valet? It said $24 on the website. This is the second Autograph hotel I've stayed at where they advertise the self-parking on the website then upcharge you for valet. I'm a Platinum, really, you're gonna dunn me for that kind of money?
No concierge. That's a bummer.
The ugly: I'm trying, TRYING to filter out the target market stuff but it's hard.
The focal points in the room are twofold: a large 2'x2' godawful plastic steer skull staring vacantly over your head as you work at the really skinny desk (slightly smaller than the span of the cranium above you). I keep expecting steer snot to drip on my keyboard... Casper the friendly ghostcow is just creepy.
The other focal point caught me crap from my co-workers, as they also booked in here after I did. The... uh... thing... over the bed. In the pictures it looks like a dark mirror and they HOWLED over the idea that I chose a hotel with mirrors over the bed.
It is NOT a mirror. It's bizarre... it's a polished brass artwork with two phrases engraved within the frame: "Good News... it's almost time to drink coffee again" and "Everything's looking up". Well, okay. The problem with this giant framed thingy is it visually shrinks the room - the ceiling seems lower than it actually is.
All in all... maybe once it's had some time to finish up.
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